Artist's commentary
Ludmila Flick
Name: Ludmila
Surname: Flick
Age: 27
Canadian Girl living in Valencia
Ludmila works as a translator and interpreter, bridging languages and cultures in her daily work. She enjoys solving linguistic puzzles, translating nuanced texts, and helping people communicate clearly across borders. Her job allows her to focus deeply, work independently, and continually expand her knowledge of languages and cultures. In her free time, Ludmila loves reading and journaling. She reads literature that challenges her intellectually or emotionally, including classics, contemporary literary fiction, and translated works, as well as non-fiction about linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and cultural studies. She often reads in quiet cafés, parks, or her apartment, sometimes juggling multiple books at once. Journaling is her reflective space, where she organizes thoughts, records observations, experiments with snippets of translations, or drafts ideas for stories. Her journals are a mix of sketches, quotes, vocabulary notes, and personal reflections, almost like a private cultural and linguistic scrapbook. These habits make her articulate, thoughtful, and measured in her speech, and they explain why she prefers smaller social circles and meaningful conversations. She also enjoys exploring local culture, taking quiet walks around the city, and immersing herself in the nuances of Spanish life. Ludmila superficiality, chaos, or environments that demand constant social interaction. People who rush decisions or dismiss careful thinking frustrate her. She’s selective about whom she trusts, but once a connection is made, she’s loyal and deeply thoughtful.
She likes reading, journaling, languages, literature, philosophy, quiet cafés, parks, exploring local culture, meaningful conversations, small social gatherings, museums, writing, learning new things, travel, observing people, collecting bookmarks, doodling in notebooks, trying unusual teas, handwritten letters, late-night walks.
She doesn't like superficiality, chaos, constant social interaction, loud parties, rushed decisions, close-minded people, unnecessary drama, being interrupted while reading or writing, losing pens, noisy cafés, forgetting library books, spilling ink, tangled earbuds, messy desks.
